AMD Radeon HD 8950M vs AMD FirePro W6170M

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AMD Radeon HD 8950M

AMD FirePro W6170M

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8950M and 2GB VRAM FirePro W6170M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD FirePro W6170M 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 88.00GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8950M

1.651 TFLOPS

FirePro W6170M +19%

1.971 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8950M

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FirePro W6170M

Graphics Card

May 2013

Release Date

Aug 2014

Solar System

Generation

FirePro Mobile

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

14

-

768

Shading Units

896

48

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

17.60 GPixel/s

51.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

61.60 GTexel/s

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1.651 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.971 TFLOPS

103.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

100W

TDP

Unknown

-

No outputs

Outputs

Portable Device Dependent

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

Emerald

Saturn XT

GPU Variant

Emerald XT GL (216-0857001)

GCN 2.0

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.2

Vulkan

1.2.170

-

6.3

Shader Model

6.5

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